Why does Zhang Zongchang call Guo Songling Dear Dad?

"I suddenly saw a fire in the sky, as if the jade emperor was going to smoke. If the Jade Emperor doesn't smoke, why is it a string of fires? " If the person who wrote this "poem" finally published a collection of poems, you will definitely think it is a joke. The person who wrote this poem was Zhang Zongchang, a famous "devil in troubled times" in Beiyang period.

Later generations gave this general many nicknames and titles, such as "General Dog Meat", "General Long Legs", "General Three Knows" and "General Five Poisons". It can be seen that people are not very positive about him. Nevertheless, Zhang Zongchang still has something to commend: he is a grassroots model who realized his "Republic of China dream" with real efforts.

Zhang Zongchang, a native of Ye County (now Laizhou City), Shandong Province, was born on March 4th, 882 (15th day of the first lunar month). As a post-80s generation in that period, Zhang Zongchang's childhood can't be compared with the post-80s generation now. When he was a child, his family was poor and he just learned to read and write. Because of his poor family, he can't go to school. Not only that, Zhang Zongchang was often hungry and cold when he was a teenager. In order to make a living, Zhang Zongchang worked as a cowherd, butcher and hotel waiter. If this fate continues, Zhang Zongchang will only become a "miserable" working people. But not to be outdone, Zhang Zongchang went to Northeast China alone, and won the support of many workers in Northeast China with his generous personality. These people have also become loyal subordinates in his future warlord team. Zhang Zongchang also had some talent in language, and soon learned to speak fluent Russian when dealing with Russians. Because of his language advantage, he was sent to Siberia as a foreman of Chinese workers. In that harsh environment, he became an excellent hunter and practiced accurate marksmanship. It was these efforts when he was young that laid the foundation for him to become a lean man in the future.

19 1 1 When the Revolution of 1911 broke out, Zhang Zongchang also joined hundreds of people in this revolution. He went south to take refuge in Chen, and soon he realized that the revolutionary army was no match for Yuan Shikai, so he went to Zhang Xun. Introduced by Zhang Xun, he became an adjutant under Feng. In order to be promoted as soon as possible, he killed his first chief executive, Chen, for Feng, thus offending Chiang Kai-shek and blocking the last retreat for himself. After Chen was killed, he was reused in Feng. He used to be attached to Chairman Feng, and later transferred to the brigade commander of Jiangsu Sixth Huncheng Brigade. He led his troops into Hunan and won a beautiful victory, so he was promoted to the temporary first division commander of the army.

At this point, Zhang Zongchang is full of ambition, ready to grab territory. Men have defected, Zhang Zongchang lost his gun almost overnight. Zhang Zongchang, who had nothing, finally took refuge in the Northeast King Zhang. Zhang and Zhang Zongchang, both horse bandits, appreciated each other, gave him 200 guns and set up a gendarmerie camp. It was this military police battalion that put down the "Gaul Rebellion" in the northeast for Zhang Bing when he was defeated, and gave Zhang a breathing space.

After taking refuge in Feng Bu, Zhang Zongchang can only start from scratch and become the first battalion commander of the gendarmerie battalion. Soon, Jilin Brigadier Gao Shizhen (nephew of Meng Enyuan, the former governor of Jilin Province) joined forces with bandit Lu Yonggui to fight Zhang. At that time, Zhang Gang was defeated in the battle of Zhifu, and there were no soldiers to send, so he decided to send Zhang Zongchang to lead the gendarmerie battalion. This was originally a contest of great disparity in strength, but because many leaders of Lu Yonggui, big and small, were fellow villagers who traveled to the Kanto with Zhang Zongchang in those years, with this relationship, Zhang Zongchang stopped bleeding, that is, the Hu bandits were organized into three groups. Zhang was very happy and appointed him as the brigade commander of the third brigade of Jilin Provincial Defense Forces and the commander of Suining, Jilin Province. In this way, Zhang Zongchang has a foothold.

Later, Zhang Zongchang incorporated Belarusian soldiers scattered during the Russian Civil War, and the combat effectiveness of the troops increased rapidly. In a few years, Zhang Zongchang's troops have grown to 65,438+10,000. Because of the rapid growth of troops, even Zhang Zongchang himself didn't know how many soldiers he had. Plus, he didn't know how much money he had and how many concubines he had, so people nicknamed him "Three No Generals".

After Zhang Zongchang defected to Zhang Hou, he started as a bandit and Belarus, and set up a brigade. However, because his team is too Qi Fei and grows opium, his reputation is poor. Zhang was determined to be dismissed, so he sent Guo Songling as a proofreader to check Zhang's exercises and wait for an opportunity to solve them.

The exercise was quite harsh, and Zhang's soldiers were tortured to crawl on the ice and lie in the snow. Zhang Zongchang hid to one side and complained, cursing: "Shit, which son of a bitch planned this."

While cursing, Guo Songling suddenly pushed the door and came in. Hearing this, Zhang scolded, "Who are you cursing?"

Zhang said, "This is my spoken language. I didn't scold anyone."

Guo was furious and pointed to Zhang's nose and scolded, "I'm your mother!" " This is my spoken English! "

See Zhang Zongchang face from red to black, jumped down from the kang. "Uncle Guo, you are my mother and you are my dear father. What else is there to say? "

A storm vanished. Guo has a good impression on Zhang instead. I think he can accommodate people. Naturally, after the review, he returned to Fengtian and said a lot of good things, and the waste theory was over.

Later, Zhang Zongchang said to his cronies, "I call him dad, but he is not my dad."

Zhang Zongchang's big truth, as well as his smug "Three Duoism"-"More money, more soldiers and more concubines." In fact, there are many warlords who love telling the truth like Zhang Zongchang.